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In a deeply moving collection of interrelated stories, this American classic illuminates the loneliness and frustrations---spiritual, emotional, and artistic---of life in a small town.
Sherwood Anderson (Author), George K. Wilson (Narrator)
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Sherwood Anderson writes almost as if he were eavesdropping on the private domestic lives of a small Ohio town's inhabitants in the early 1900's. The central figure, George Willard, is a young budding journalist working for the local paper who allows the listener in on the latest gossip being circulated in this casual study of the insular Midwest, when America was still growing up. This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon. With its simple and intense style, Winesburg, Ohio evokes the quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. The stories include: 1. The Book of the Grotesque 2. Hands, concerning Wing Biddlebaum 3. Paper Pills, concerning Doctor Reefy 4. Mother, concerning Elizabeth Willard 5. The Philosopher, concerning Doctor Parcival 6. Nobody Knows, concerning Louise Trunnion 7. Godliness, Parts I and II, concerning Jesse Bentley 8. Godliness, Surrender (Part III), concerning Louise Bentley 9. Godliness, Terror (Part IV), concerning David Hardy 10. A Man of Ideas, concerning Joe Welling 11. Adventure, concerning Alice Hindman 12. Respectability, concerning Wash Williams 13. The Thinker, concerning Seth Richmond 14. Tandy, concerning Tandy Hard 15. The Strength of God, concerning The Reverend Curtis Hartman 16. The Teacher, concerning Kate Swift 17. Loneliness, concerning Enoch Robinson 18. An Awakening, concerning Belle Carpenter 19. "Queer", concerning Elmer Cowley 20. The Untold Lie, concerning Ray Pearson 21. Drink, concerning Tom Foster 22. Death, concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard 23. Sophistication, concerning Helen White 24. Departure, concerning George Willard AUTHOR Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in Camden, Ohio. Largely self-educated, he worked at various trades while writing fiction in his spare time. For several years he worked as a copywriter in Chicago where he became part of the Chicago literary renaissance. As an author, he strongly influenced American short-story writing, and his best-known book, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), brought him recognition as a leader in the revolt against established literary traditions. COMMENTARY Reviews for Alcazar AudioWorks' production of Winesburg, Ohio The classic fiction of Sherwood Anderson is brought to life by Alcazar AudioWorks as talented voice actors tell the stories of Winesburg Ohio. In the early 1900s, a young reporter sets out to record the stories of the lives within Winesburg Ohio. Quite unusual and candid, the stories told by some of the older people date back all the way to the Civil War. Town gossip, suspicion, and intrigue are the lifeblood of Winesburg Ohio; it flows from the townsfolk to the reporter to the listener's ear. To the outside, it seems a simple town, but listeners will be surprised and maybe even shocked by what really happens here. Each story is about something gone terribly wrong, something that author Sherwood Anderson called, ""The Grotesques."" Each is quite unique and the contents won't be revealed by the titles: Tales and the Persons, Hands, Paper Pills, Mother, Dr. Parcival, Nobody Knows, Godliness, A Man of Ideas, Adventure, Respectability, The Thinker, Tandy, The Strength of God, The Teacher, Loneliness, An Awakening, Queer, The Untold Lie, Drink, Death, Sophistication, and Departure. All of the short stories in the town collection are contained on a seven-CD set. Sherwood Anderson grew up in a small town in Ohio and graduated MFA from Ohio State University. His most popular book is celebrated each year at the Sherwood Anderson Festival. Reviewed By: Kate O'Mara - EHO Eclectic Homeschool Online Quotes about Winesburg, Ohio Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as ""the finest edition of this seminal work available."" Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In ""Hands,"" Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In ""Adventure,"" lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. -Amazon.com Review ""When he calls himself a 'poor scribbler' don't believe him. He is not a poor scribbler . . . he is a very great writer.""-Ernest Hemingway ""Winesburg, Ohio is an extraordinarily good book. But it is not fiction. It is poetry."" -Rebecca West "Considered to be one of the forerunners of modern fiction...[A] ground-breaking masterpiece."-Midwest Book Review "Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly lifelike and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own."-H. L. Mencken "As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else, unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities in Winesburg, Ohio...These people live and breathe: they are beautiful."-E. M. Forster "Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion."-Hart Crane "[A] timeless book of connected short stories about the brave, cowardly, and altogether realistic inhabitants of an imaginary American town."-AudioFile "
Sherwood Anderson (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)
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Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon. "When he calls himself a 'poor scribbler' don't believe him. He is not a poor scribbler...he is a very great writer."-Ernest Hemingway
Sherwood Anderson (Author), Various Readers (Narrator)
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Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. Bittersweet and richly insightful, it reveals Sherwood Anderson's special talent for taking the small moments of life and transforming them into timeless folk tales-a talent that inspired a generation of writers including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an earnest young reporter for the Winesburg Eagle who sets out to gather the town's daily news. He ends up discovering the town's deepest secrets as one by one, the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. In their recollections of first loves and last rites, of sprawling farms and winding country roads, the town rises vividly-and poignantly-to life. With polished prose and fresh imagery, Winesburg, Ohio is an American classic that celebrates small town life in the lost days of innocence and good will.
Sherwood Anderson (Author), George Guidall (Narrator)
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Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of stories set in a fictitious town in the 1890s, has long been considered Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece. This groundbreaking work set the stage for a new era in writing, greatly influencing Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck, among many others. Anderson wrote simply, brilliantly crafting a work that dared to examine the darker impulses of human nature. Considered by many at the time of publication in 1919 to be a scandalous work, Winesburg, Ohio has nonetheless survived through the decades as one of the forerunners of modern fiction. Haunting and powerful, it draws listeners into the streets and houses of Winesburg-and into the darkly complex lives of each of Anderson's unforgettable "grotesques."
Sherwood Anderson (Author), Terry Bregy (Narrator)
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El joven George Willard, reportero del periódico local, observa la vida de los habitantes de su pequeño pueblo, Winesburg, en Ohio. La mirada del narrador construye, a partir de lo cotidiano y gris, un fascinante retrato humano, pulcro y detallado, de enorme realismo poético y finísima penetración, que convierte al libro en todo un referente literario. Grabado en español ibérico (España).
Sherwood Anderson (Author), Santi Goas (Narrator)
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The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems
The Triumph of the Egg is a fictional panorama of a great region of our country, unfolded by a writer who-to quote the New York Times-"depicts life in the Midwest as Dostoevsky pictured the many colored life of Russia, with almost as wonderful a touch of genius, with a more concentrated and daring skill." This coveted 1921 collection is an example of what a book of stories can be when a writer of vision deals with the materials of American life.
Sherwood Anderson (Author), , Arthur Morey, Donald Corren, Erica Sullivan, Jim Meskimen, Kate Mulligan, Paul Michael Garcia, Richard Powers, Traber Burns (Narrator)
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The Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, famous for his highly subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he became a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer. This collection contains seven of his most haunting tales. • Seeds • War • The Dumb Man • The Egg • Senility • The New Englander • The Door of the Trap
Sherwood Anderson (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)
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The Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, famous for his highly subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he became a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer. This collection contains seven of his most haunting tales. • Seeds • War • The Dumb Man • The Egg • Senility • The New Englander • The Door of the Trap
Sherwood Anderson (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)
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Ten Childhood Tales: Poignant Childhood Recollections
A poignant and profound collection of stories which explore the theme of childhood and a child's perspective on the world. 'The Dabblers' by W. F. Harvey 'The Doll’s House' by Katherine Mansfield 'The Roman Road' by Kenneth Grahame 'The Sailor Uncle' by Mary Lamb 'The Egg' by Sherwood Anderson 'Gabriel-Ernest' by Saki 'A Child’s Revenge' by Paul Bourget 'The Apple Tree' by Katherine Mansfield 'A Falling Out' by Kenneth Grahame 'The Christmas Tree and the Wedding' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Katherine Mansfield, Kenneth Grahame, Sherwood Anderson (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)
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Hugh McVey is an inventor who moves from Missouri to Bidwell, Ohio. He creates a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the workload of farmers, but an investor exploits his product. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a fortune and transforms the small town in Ohio into a center of manufacturing. McVey, lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends Ohio State. Published one year after the short story collection Winesburg, Ohio, this novel has a modernist style and a realist attention to everyday life, and holds a significant amount of contemporary resonance.
Sherwood Anderson (Author), Traber Burns (Narrator)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald definió Muchos matrimonios una de las mejores novelas de Sherwood Anderson. El libro abraza la tesis del fracaso de la monogamia, es decir de la institución del matrimonio. Por esta razón fue vetado en muchas librerías de Estados Unidos y de Inglaterra y creó no pocos problemas a su editor. A pesar de ello Fitzgerald afirmó que no se trataba de un libro inmoral sino de un libro ferozmente antisocial. El mismo Anderson adelantó que al libro se le acusaría de inmoralidad porque investigaba en la dirección de una liberación física y mental, en un intento de revelarse a sí mismo cual era la justa vía para el ser humano. La novela puede parecer una simple historia de adulterio hasta puede parecer de lo más obvio: el jefe con su secretaria, pero la reflexión de Anderson despojada de inhibición, es mucho más profunda y mística, quiere ahondar en la esencia del hombre para entender cuáles fuerzas interiores, a veces inevitables, lo mueven a través de las convenciones sociales. Grabado en español ibérico (España).
Sherwood Anderson (Author), Gustavo Ausín (Narrator)
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